Sit down, relax, enjoy your family and Thanksgiving meal today.
Friday, you can walk it all off.
But surely you don’t want to do that in a crowded mall. Or pacing as you wait to get in to see a blockbuster movie.
Here’s an alternative: Galleries and museums. It’s a cinch they won’t be crowded, so it’s a chance to stroll through and grab an eyeful of some pretty impressive art.
The current show at the Tucson Museum of Art, for instance. “The Figure Examined” is a blockbuster kind of exhibit with works by many of the the biggest names in 20th century art — Marc Chagall, Salvador Dali, Alberto Giacometti, Matisse, Picasso. The list goes on. While there, stop at the top floor and look down at Rodin’s “Adam,” in the museum’s well. Get a load of the muscles in the neck, the taut back. This is a view of a large-sized Rodin one doesn’t often get, and it’s a stunner.
People are also reading…
TMA’s hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Thursdays (though not today — Thanksgiving is one of the few holidays TMA closes), and noon-5 p.m. Sundays. It’s at 140 N. Main Ave., 624-2333.
Etherton Gallery is closed today but is open 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Its current exhibit, “Land Exposures,” features the works of three contemporary photographers: David Emitt Adams, Richard Laugharn and Jamey Stillings.
You may remember Stillings’ stunning photography of the Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge — Etherton had a show of those works in 2010. In the current exhibit, Stillings is just as impressive with his aerial photos of the world’s largest solar plant, Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in the Mohave Desert. Adams, a Yuma native, gives new perspective on the desert with his photo sculptures. And Laughharn’s landscape photography also centers on the desert, revealing its grace and mystery.
Etherton is at 135 S. Sixth Ave., 792-4569.
Check out dailystarcalendar.com for a slew of other visual arts choices this weekend.
And have a good walk.
